Adaptive Paradigms in Architecture. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

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Prerequisites: ARCH 224 . The course will focus on theories behind kinetic, responsive, and adaptive architecture. It will examine architecture in relation to the latest research in biology, material science, embedded systems, soft robotics, synthetic biology, bioengineering, and will address possible shifts in imagining and re-envisioning materialization of architecture. The course will underline architecture’s inseparable link to technology and speculate on new possibilities for architecture as an integrated, responsive, adaptive, and productive participant within larger ecologies.